Tabloids could do a lot of good, if they choose to:

[gwagner@fediscience.org]

Tabloids could do a lot of good, if they choose to:

Loire Valley without Loire

#climate #energy #france #dailymail

[gwagner@fediscience.org]

Not much sensationalizing needed

#climate

[quantensalat@scicomm.xyz]

@gwagner "The Loire" is not completely barren, one more shallow arm or part of an arm is at one side of a bifurcation. It still is tabloid level reporting.

[greg_harvey@tooting.ch]

@gwagner Edit: apologies, this is 2026, and I now understand the point of your post (that it's normal for this time of year, but still...) The photos from 2022 were in *winter*.

Not playing it down, but that was 2022, after several years of general drought in France. It was overflowing 4 months ago in the exact same spot, it's not so bad right now because we had two wet winters in a row. The risk of long droughts is ever present, but for the moment the water table in France is reasonably full.

[swisslet@mas.to]

@gwagner in fairness, this happens to the Loire most years (although usually in August). I don’t doubt there’s a severe drought on, but the Loire is famously a shifting river. They always say (my wife grew up in the Loire valley) that, just because it looks dry, don’t make the mistake of trying to walk across as there’s quicksand.

[cauzation@mastodon.social]

@greg_harvey Increasing vacillations in underlying root infrastructure, instead of oscillating systems, going beyond critical level tipping points, makes for mass extinctions of the past.

Humans have agency in corrections to our more innocently ignorant roots, of GHG inundation during modern industrialization.

But hey, if your kids sleep well at night, how can the future - or ongoing present - render them extinct?

Stewardship... May as well join the TechBros and Fossil Fuels oligarchs.